Cryptic Clues

ACROSS

5 Made harmless when

deadened 7 Agree to be zealous 8 The paladin edged along

and ate lunch 9 Fasten an item of men’s

neckwear 11 Readily throw off an

outbuilding 13 Soundly obstruct a group of

united territories 14 Make a speech to a teacher 15 Any thing back on United

Nations 17 Bestowal of a US private

outfit 19 Measurements of seamen 20 Forwarded top secrets in

the mid-twenties 21 Wapiti’s self-centred

aftershocks 22 Coastal ocean team

DOWN

for starters 4 A talon having no

established key 5 Using a frock in outside games for wound applications Cites dead individuals and sets apart 10 At last, silica pieces where

the letters slope to the right 12 Give to Don at England’s

capital 13 Freeloaded from the last

horse in bed 16 An ancient city points to

tea-heating vessels 18 Lies about a coral reef 6